Abstract art is a kind of visual thinking with colour, shape, form and medium. Abstraction often involves a spontaneous and intuitive approach to artistic creation. However, it also requires aesthetic rational behind the creative expression - i.e. the artist has to select what is essential to create abstract art. The nature of abstract art is evocative rather than descriptive. It can stimulate our senses and inner feelings without story-telling.
14 March 47 (still life on table) 1947
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Oil on board
H 46.1 x W 52.1 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
The Tempest 1959
Henry Inlander (1925–1983)
Oil on canvas
H 95.5 x W 95.4 cm
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Peter Kinley (1926–1988)
Oil on canvas
H 45.6 x W 56 cm
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Blue Purpose 1935
Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981)
Oil on canvas
H 65 x W 81.3 cm
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Composition with Blue and Black 1959
William Scott (1913–1989)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 127 cm
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Landscape with Sea 1958
Trevor Bell (1930–2017)
Oil on canvas
H 199.4 x W 167.8 cm
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Kenneth Dingwall (b.1938)
Acrylic on canvas
H 163.3 x W 209.6 cm
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Rumbold Vertical Four: Green in Green with Blue and Red: September 1970 1970
Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
Oil on canvas
H 213.4 x W 122 cm
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Callum Innes (b.1962)
Oil on canvas
H 175 x W 165 cm
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Scottish Ballad 1990
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991)
Acrylic & collage on canvas
H 91.5 x W 61 cm
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Head of a Young Girl 1975
Stephen Buckley (b.1944)
Enamel over acrylic on canvas
H 208.2 x W 170.1 cm
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To a Summer's Day 1980
Bridget Riley (b.1931)
Acrylic on linen
H 115.5 x W 251 cm
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Untitled 1950–1959
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004)
Oil on canvas
H 55.3 x W 78.2 cm
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Green for Cathy 1973
John Copnall (1928–2007)
Oil on canvas
H 294 x W 189 cm
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Ian McKenzie Smith (b.1935)
Oil on canvas
H 102 x W 126.9 cm
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Landscape 1957
William Johnstone (1897–1981)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 63.6 cm
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Poissons d'or 1963
Ceri Giraldus Richards (1903–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 128 x W 127.8 cm
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